New Zealander - Athlete | August 3, 1985 -
Going back in time, the best sportsmen ever have been Olympians.
Sonny Bill Williams
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As a league player, for myself, you strive to win a comp. I'm lucky enough to have achieved that... but most sportspeople would love to go to the Olympics, and I haven't achieved that.
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I don't know if I'm going to be any good at sevens.
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In rugby union, I was out wide kicking stones with the pretty boys.
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If I could go back and change how I left the NRL, I would. My name will forever be tarnished but I wasn't the man I am now.
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Being a young Kiwi lad, a young Polynesian boy, I was pretty close to my family. But when I moved to Sydney, I went from training twice a week, playing touch footy with my mates, to working full-time as a labourer and training professionally.
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I've got confidence that I'll be able to pick it up eventually, but that's the reason I'm a full-time Sevens player this year: because I knew coming into it that it would be really tough, and I've got to give it my all.
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It was a fairly normal happy upbringing. Not a lot of money, but a lot of love.
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I grew up as a Polynesian kid in the Polynesian community, and I was this skinny white kid.
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I didn't feel that I really fit in anywhere. So when I was young I always had to prove myself through my sporting ability.
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My old man never used to cook, so we lived on takeaway. The others were always jealous.
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I am my own man now; I can think for myself, whereas when I was 20, 21, I always wanted to please others.
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